Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-12-08
NEWS SUMMARY.


to that grown in Cuba and Sumatra
Much of the years crop sold at from 20 to
80 cents pound. A New York syndicate
has purchased 10,c0 acres of land in Gads-
den and Columbia counties and will plant
over 1000 acres of tobacco during the
coming year.
A boiler used for heating water, and
situated Immediately behind the kitchen
in the Kirby house in Milwaukee, Wis,
exploded the other morning. "Ten girls
were terribly injured, and one woman
was instantly killed.
Experiments made with the incandes-
cent electric lights at the Newport torpe-
do station demonstrate that the little
lamp will prove of great value in naval
warfare. A 1U0-candle power light twenty
feet below the surface Eliminates the
water so that objects are plainly distin-
guishable within radius of 100 feet.
Chicago clergy man demand the cessa-
ton Of Sunday work and the enforcement
of the blue laws.
g. r. and c. X. Garrison, nephews OF
he late Commodore Garrison of New
York, were killed in mine at Webb City,
Mo-, the other day.
From the annual report of the super
intendent of the life-saving service it i,
learned that of the 6, 3:7 lives endangered
the past year, only So were lost.
AT meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Irish national league Of Ameri-
ca, held in st. Louis, Mo-, recently, reso-
lutions were adopted which appealed to
a HhqptU-lnV In " np
Scotland and Waves, and also to the PEG.
pie of Irish birth and extraction i'm Amer
ca, for moral and material aid in behalf
OF ireland in her struggles for home rule,
tender sympathy to all now suffering in
prison for their devotion to the cause of
irish liberty, denounce the coercive meas
ures of the british government, extol the
power and advantages OF organization
and call upon every friend in America to
join the national league and work for the
good of ireland; thank the American
press and people for their generous sup
port of the Irish cause and ,eulogize Mr..
Gladstone and his colleagues and the Brit
ish demo cracy for their efforts in behalf
of Ireland. About 5000 was contributed
to the fund and resolutions denouncing
the Sa isbury government and otherwise
appropriate to the occasion were adopted.
The English and Canadian members of
the fisheries commission were rendered
reception in Washington the other night
Chicago, Omaha, Minneapolis and Phila-
delphia are all working hard for the
national republican convention.
Mr.. Powderly is getting points for the
X. of J.. argument in favor OF govern
ment telegraph system. He is going to
Europe in May. The various strikes now
on include that of miners in the Monon-
gahela river district, whose differences
promise to be settled 10y arbitration; Par
dee d Hazleton, Pa, who will resume /
enough men will 20 to work in their
mines; and movement in which 1900
Havana cigarmakers are shut out in
Cuba.
New York clergyman have organized a
society for the promotion of burial re-
form.
Clergyman of Columbia, S. c., have
caused something of a sensation in that
city by denouncing the Columbia city
club as a gambling he |. Gov. Richard
son and Senators Hampton and Butler are
members of the club.
Three men were buried alive in the
quarry near Hummeltown, Pa, the other
day.
DR.. Middleton Gold smith, the mo st emf
nent physician in Vermont is dead. Dur
ing the war he was u medical director in
the army hospital at Louisville, Ky, and
while there invented treatment for gan
creme which relieves the disease of han its
horrors and Is in general use in this coun-
try and Europe. He was man of great
intellectual vigor and had written many
valuable treatises on obscure and difficult
diseases. Only last year he gave s., 600 to
the New York pathological institute to
neurotics, an obscure disease
of the extremities of the nerves about
which little is known.
The total cash in the treasury. as shown
by the treasurer's general account. is
1874, $50, lG5. The pubic debt showed an
increase of $l,49O, $50 during November;
since June 30 the debt has been decreased
S39,2i5,6 4.
Jacob Sharp. the New York boodler, has
been admitted to bail in the sum of $40, 1000
Sharp is now at home for the first time in
many m onths
Young Lee, the won d-be assassin of his
Banker Rawson of Chicago.
has been held for trial in default of $4,000
bail.
The Garfield statue in Cincinnati was
unveiled with imposing ceremonies on the
LIST inst.
Two men and five horses were killed In
Wis, the other day by the
premature explosion of blast.
Miss Frances Il. Willard deliv cred a
eulogy of the late John b. Finch, at a
public meeting in Chicago the other
night.
A gigantic scheme of the Standard oil
company has been ust made pablo. 1t is
to lay Grand Trunk pipe line from
Chicago to New York. by way Of the
and Ohio oil fields The
line will be 1000 miles long and will cost at
least s5000,00o.
A statement prepared at the treasury
shows that there is a marked
increase in the circulation in silver GER
gold coin, standard silver dollars